Keynote Speakers

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  Sara Moridpour

  Professor, School of Engineering, RMIT University, Australia.

  Research field: Transport Modelling; Sustainable Transport and Accessibility; Transport Infrastructure Maintenance; Traffic Safety; Driving Behaviour Simulation.

  Prof. Sara Moridpour is a professor and an expert in traffic engineering and transportation modelling at the School of Engineering, RMIT University. She holds a Bachelor of Civil Engineering and a Master's in Transportation Planning and Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Iran. She also obtained her Ph.D. degree in traffic and transport engineering from Monash University. She received numerous accolades for her leadership and contributions to STEM. Awards include the Veski Inspiring Women in STEM Sidebyside Leadership Award (2023), the RMIT University School of Engineering Leadership Award (2021), and the prestigious Institute of Transportation Engineers Rising Star Award (2016). Additionally, she is an editorial board member of four traffic/transportation engineering journals, an executive board member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers Australia and New Zealand Section, and a fellow member of Engineers Australia. She has served as a technical and organizing committee member for different traffic/transportation conferences. She works in the areas of driving behaviour modelling and analysis, road freight management, transport infrastructure maintenance planning and management, transport network modelling and simulation, and road safety.

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  Mohamed-Slim Alouini

  Professor, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia.

  Research field: MIMO techniques; multi-hop and cooperative communications; optical wireless communication systems; cognitive radio systems; green communication systems; underwater/maritime communication systems and integrated ground-airborne-space networks.

  Throughout his 30-year academic career, Professor Mohamed-Slim Alouini, an IEEE and OPTICA Fellow, has developed analytical and simulation tools for evaluating the performance of radio-frequency and optical wireless communication systems. He has also designed and optimized innovative technologies for emerging wireless networks.

  Professor Alouini, a co-founder of KAUST's ECE program, inspires future engineers through his pioneering work in wireless communications. His integrated space-air-ground networks, spectrum sharing schemes, and optical wireless communication systems research shape connectivity's future and embody KAUST's scientific excellence and global impact.

  Professor Alouini has published numerous conference and journal papers and co-authored the textbook Digital Communication over Fading Channels, published by Wiley Interscience. A former editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communication, he also served as an editor for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and the Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing journal. He was also a series editor for the IEEE Communication Magazine's Optical Communication and Networks Special Series and the founding field chief editor for the Frontiers in Communications and Networks journal. He is now the Founding Editor-in-Chief for the Nature Partnership Journal (NPJ) on Wireless Technologies (since 2025) and an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronics Systems (since 2022). Professor Alouini has been an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Communication Society (2016-2017), the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society(2018-2022), the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (2023-2024), and the IEEE Photonics Society (2025).

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  Jimy Alexander Cortes Osorio

  Professoer, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Colombia.

  Research field: Optical Instrument; Pattern Recognition; Computer Vision.

  Jimy Alexander Cortés Osorio is a Full Professor in the Department of Physics, School of Basic Sciences, at the Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira (UTP), where he has been a faculty member since November 2003. He holds a Ph.D. in Automatic Engineering from Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Manizales campus (2020), as well as a Master's in Physical Instrumentation and a Master's in Physics Education, both from UTP.

  His research focuses on computer vision and optical instrumentation — with particular emphasis on estimating kinematic quantities from linearly motion-blurred images — as well as machine learning applied to image analysis, applied robotics, and ICT-mediated science education. He leads the Applied Robotics Research Group, recognized and classified by Colombia's Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (Minciencias).

  Minciencias classifies him as a Senior Researcher (IS), the highest recognition tier in Colombia's scientific system. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). He has also served as editor of the journal Scientia et Technica (ISSN 0122-1701) at UTP since 2018.

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  Jehad M. Hamamreh

  Professor, An-Najah National University, Palestine.

  Research field: Cybersecurity; Wireless Networks; AI/ML; 5G/6G.

  Dr. Hamamreh is currently working as a faculty member at the Computer Science and Cyber Security Department of the IT and AI Faculty. He has also been with Antalya Bilim University serving as A. Professor and Director of Wislabi.com at the Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), where he later became the ECE department head of Postgraduate Studies 2023-2024. Before that, he was affiliated with the School of Engineering and Science at Istanbul Medipol University, CoSINC Lab (which was strongly connected with WCSP lab at USF university in the USA), where he conducted novel research on smart systems, wireless networks and its security, based on which he earned his PhD with excellence and named a top graduate of the year. Prior to that, he worked with Texas A&M University as a researcher in the ECE department. He is an experienced academician with more than twelve years of research, teaching, advisership, and leadership experience. Dr. Hamamreh has contributed to his research portfolio by securing funds from the government and industry for several R&D projects, where he acted as a PI, Consultant, and Senior Researcher. He also presented his research at various leading conferences around the globe and served as an editor for many international scientific journals, referee for several funding agencies, jury on multiple thesis defenses, and technical committee member for many conferences. He has supervised and mentored more than 20 international Master’s and PhD students on their theses and published multiple research articles with them. Dr. Hamamreh is also an inventor of more than 15 Patents, mostly known as the inventor of Cross-Layer Keyless Perfect Secrecy, Number Modulation, and Power Modulation in OFDM and MIMO systems, as well as Advanced NOMA. He is an author of more than 80 peer-reviewed scientific papers along with 3 main books and 7 book chapters in 5 different books. He received the top researcher award of ABU three times: 2018, 2021, and 2022; attended in the list of top 10000 researchers prepared by the international ranking organization AD Scientific Index and in 2024 he was named a Top Scholar by ScholarGPS. He has an h-index of 24 with more than 2500 citations. Dr. Hamamreh has taught various courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, including Wireless Networks, Wireless Security, PhySec, IoT, AI/ML, etc.

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  Weimin Huang

  Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

  Research field: Ocean Remote Sensing; HF Radar; Microwave Radar; GNSS-R; Ocean Waves.

  He received his B.Sc., M.Sc. in radio physics (radio wave propagation and antenna) and a PhD in space physics from the School of Electronic Information at Wuhan University in 1995, 1997, and 2001, respectively. He also completed an additional M.Eng. and a three-year post-doctoral fellowship in electrical and computer engineering at Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) in 2004 and 2007, respectively.

  From 2008 to 2010, he was a Design Engineer with Rutter Technologies, St. John's, NL, Canada. Since 2010, he has been with the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Memorial University, where he became a Full Professor in 2019 and the department Deputy Head during 2020-2023. He has authored over 350 refereed research papers. He has edited the book Ocean Remote Sensing Technologies: High Frequency, Marine, and GNSS-Based Radar. His past and present research interests include the mapping of oceanic surface parameters and targets via high-frequency ground wave radar, X-band marine radar, global navigation satellite systems, and synthetic aperture radar, digital image processing and applied electromagnetics.

  He was a Member and the Co-Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Evaluation Group for Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery Grants, from 2018 to 2021. He has been a Technical Program Committee Member. He was a recipient of a Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the Memorial University of Newfoundland, the Discovery Accelerator Supplements Award from NSERC in 2017, and IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society 2019 Letters Prize Paper Award as well as some other teaching and research awards. He is an IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society (OES) Distinguished Lecturer. He is a Subject Editor-in-Chief for Electronics Letters (IET) and a Section Editor-in-Chief for Remote Sensing, and has been an Associate Editor for eight journals including IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING, IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING LETTERS, IEEE JOURNAL OF OCEANIC ENGINEERING, etc, and has been a Guest Editor for IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN APPLIED EARTH OBSERVATIONS AND REMOTE SENSING and seven other journals.

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  Roberta Risoluti

  Associate professor, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome.

  Research field: Spectroscopy; Forensic Science; Mass Spectrometry; Analytical Method Development.

  October 2012. Degree in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Rome "Sapienza". Thesis Title: "Determination of explosive traces: application of new analytical extraction methods". June 2013-December 2013. Co.Co.Co Contract at the University of Rome "Sapienza" at the Department of Chemistry. Project: "Optimization of analytical procedures for explosive traces detection". January 2014- April 2015. Fellowship at the University of Rome "Sapienza" at the Department of Chemistry. Project: "Microencapsulation of lactobacilli for nutritional purposes". May 2015- May 2017. Research Grant contract at the University of Rome "Sapienza" at the Department of Chemistry. Project: "New analytical strategies for microencapsulation of probiotics". November 2013. PhD position in Chemical Sciences at the University of Rome "Sapienza", Department of Chemistry.

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  T.D. Subash

  Professor, Zhejiang Ocean University, China.

  Research field: Photonics, Nanoelectronics, and Photovoltaics.

  He is a Professor and global academic leader with over 17 years of experience in engineering education, research governance, and technological innovation. His work focuses on academic quality assurance, outcomes-based education, and continuous improvement in higher education. Currently at Zhejiang Ocean University, China, he leads multidisciplinary research and teaching in photonics, nanoelectronics, and photovoltaics, while contributing to curriculum design, program evaluation, and industry-aligned education frameworks. He serves in several international leadership roles, including as an elected Member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Photonics Society and Chair of the IEEE Greentronics Technical Committee. He has also founded multiple IEEE chapters and contributes to global education and research initiatives. He has published over 100 journal papers, delivered 100+ invited talks, and led numerous collaborative research projects. His work emphasizes student-centered learning, measurable outcomes, and global academic excellence.

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  Sudhakar Kumarasamy

  Researcher, Universiti Malaysia Pahang AL Sultan Abdullah (UMPSA), Malaysia.

  Research field: Heat Transfer in Energy Applications, Exergy Analysis, Energy Conservation, Sustainability Assessment, Biofuel, Solar Thermal and PV Systems, Hybrid Electric Vehicles, Energy Modeling, and the Food-Water-Energy Nexus.

  Dr. K. Sudhakar is currently an academician and researcher at the Faculty of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering Technology, Universiti Malaysia Pahang. He also holds permanent position at Energy Centre, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal,India and a visiting position at South Ural State University, Russian Federation .He is a Chartered Engineer (CEng) registered with the Institution of Engineers India, Certified Energy Manager and Auditor by Bureau of Energy Efficiency ,Govt of India and registered as Member with Board of Engineers, Malaysia and Malaysia Board of Technologists. Since he started his career in 2006, he has received numerous prestigious academic awards, including Best Faculty Award (2006) ,Department of Science and Technology, Government of India -Senior Research Fellowship (2008),British council youngest climate leader Award (2010), Madhya Pradesh Young Scientist Award (2012),Young South Asian Researcher Award on Sustainable Consumption and Production by TERI University in association with SSDN, UNEP, and the EU through the SWITCH-Asia Programme (2016) ,UMP Cendekia Bitara Awards for the year 2017,2018,2020.

  He has graduated more than 6 PhD and 45 Masters students both in India and Malaysia , and is leading a team of 15 members consisting of PhD ,Master and Under graduate final year students. Up to 2021, he has published more than 150 journal papers within a span of six years. His publications have been cited over 5000 times over the past 5 years. His current h-index is 40, placing him among the World's top 2% (100,000) scientists for a global ranking in 2019 provided by the journal Plos Biology "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators"for the topic "Energy". He is also the principal and co-investigator of more than 30 projects from International, National, and Industry Projects, with total amount more than 27 Million INR and MYR 0.5 million. He is now serving as an Associate Editor in Frontiers in Energy Research (IF: 4.008), Energy Engineering (CiteScore: 0.70), Journal of Engineering Education Transformations (Cite Score :2.205); and Editorial Board of Indian Journal of Power and River Valley Development (UGC indexed). He also managing as lead guest editor of several open access journals, Frontiers in Energy Research (IF: 4.008), MDPI Sustainability (IF: 3.251); International Journal of Photo Energy, Hindawi (IF: 2.113); FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Techscience (Cite Score :1.4).

  Dr Sudhakar is an active reviewer for more than 100 esteemed international journals published by Elsevier, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Wiley and SAGE publishers. He has been in the Top 250 reviewers list powered by Publons. Also, he has acted as a handling editor for more than 100 submitted manuscripts in numerous journals. He has delivered over 100 invited talks in various national and international forums. He is an avid traveller and has visited many countries including Sri Lanka, Vietnam, China, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia to present research papers at various premier international conferences and attend business meetings.